This week, as part of the process to develop a budget for the 2026 fiscal year, the White House Trump shared a draft copy of its budget for NASA with the Space Agency.
This initial version of the administration’s budget request calls for a total reduction of approximately 20 percent to the agency’s budget in all fields, which is actually $ 5 billion in the total total line of about $ 25 billion. However, the majority of discounts are concentrated in the Agency’s Science Mission Directorate, which oversees all the science of planets, Earth sciences, astronomical physics research, and more.
According to the “Corridor malfunction” documents granted to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency’s science programs will receive approximately 50 percent of the financing. After the agency received $ 7.5 billion in science in the fiscal year 2025, the Trump administration proposed the science line budget of only $ 3.9 billion for the next fiscal year.
Detail of discounts
Among the proposals: two -thirds of the cut to astronomical physics, to 487 million dollars; More than two -thirds of the piece to the helix, low to 455 million dollars; More than 50 percent reduce Earth Sciences, to $ 1.033 billion; And 30 percent reduce planetary science, low to $ 1.929 billion.
Although the budget will continue to support continuous tasks such as the Hubble Space and James Webb Space Telescope, it will kill the long -awaited Nancy Grace Roman, a observatory that appears to be equal with these two global -level tools that have already been completely assembled and the budget to start two years ago.
“The passage of vehicles supports a continuous operation of Hubble telescopes and a spacecraft for space, and it is assumed that there is no funding that is provided for other telescopes,” the document said.
